Director of Product Management, Design Systems

About the role

As Salesforce leads the industry into the agentic enterprise era, the Lightning Design System must evolve beyond a component library into an intelligent platform that supports AI-assisted UI generation, conversational experiences, and human-agent co-creation at enterprise scale. As Director of Product Management for design systems tooling and AI, you will define and own this transformation.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for embedding AI capabilities within design systems, establishing the architectural direction for how components, metadata, and semantic ontologies enable generative and conversational enterprise UIs.
• Ensure Design Systems stays at the forefront of AI innovation by defining its AI infrastructure strategy and ship zero-to-one platform capabilities.
• Lead complex technical decision-making across code generation, agentic workflows, and evaluation strategies.
• Define the guardrails, governance model, and trust criteria that ensure AI-driven UI composition meets Salesforce's accessibility, security, and brand standards.
• Own the roadmap for the full suite of designer and developer-facing tooling: UI code validators, linters, Figma plugins, etc.
• Define requirements for AI-powered creator productivity features that meaningfully accelerate designer and developer velocity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including meaningful time on design systems, developer platforms, creator tooling, or enterprise frontend infrastructure.
• Proven ability to define and execute multi-year strategic roadmaps in complex, matrixed organizations, and to align diverse stakeholders without direct authority.
• Proven experience shipping developer tools, infrastructure products, or AI-powered technical systems.
• Strong technical depth working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, LLM capabilities and constraints, and agentic workflows.
• Deep understanding of design system principles: CSS architecture, design tokens, component governance, and accessibility standards.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills. Able to move between detailed technical discussions and executive narrative with ease.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on familiarity with SLDS, Lightning Web Components, or another enterprise-scale design system (e.g., Carbon, Fluent, Material, Spectrum).
• Experience building in multi-product environments.
• Experience designing metadata schemas, ontologies, or semantic data models for AI/ML consumption.
• Experience in creator tooling: design-to-code tools or developer IDE integrations.